Official Pagan Thread!

[CoyoteMagic]

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I want to come play at your house!!

Everytime I try to do a celebration my neighbors call the cops. I think I scare them. You got to remember I'm in a rural portion of NC. I'm lucky they don't burn me at the stake!!

 

[saddina]

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I want to come play at your house!!

Everytime I try to do a celebration my neighbors call the cops. I think I scare them. You got to remember I'm in a rural portion of NC. I'm lucky they don't burn me at the stake!!

Not my house. There's about 30 families, we rent out a campground (yes the whole thing). The kids get a sleepover in the cabins, and the older teens are paid to keep an eye on them after 9, while the adults have circle. At dawn the teens cook breakfast while we clean up the joint. Most stay for 2-3 days, some stay for all 2 weeks of winter vacation. At the town next to the camp, the largest store in the middle of town is the pagan suppily store. Bringing a hundred or so people into town fills the restruants, shops, theaters (town's got about 800 population), so they're pretty happy about it.

 

[purr]

I am probably going to be at ritual with my daughter's coven. I have not joined but am always welcome at ritual.Always held in the woods by the pond. Small gathering anywhere from 10 to 20 or so people I havn't gone to the spring ritual yet but last summer solstice I got to call Fire. It was awesome and humbling. And of course we will be decorating eggs with my mother and DD and grandchildren. My mother thinks we are decorating Easter Eggs , it doesn't matter how many times we try to explain that it is a pagan ritual. But we have fun anyway.

 

[I have WHAT in my yard?]

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I want to come play at your house!!

Everytime I try to do a celebration my neighbors call the cops. I think I scare them. You got to remember I'm in a rural portion of NC. I'm lucky they don't burn me at the stake!!

Not my house. There's about 30 families, we rent out a campground (yes the whole thing). The kids get a sleepover in the cabins, and the older teens are paid to keep an eye on them after 9, while the adults have circle. At dawn the teens cook breakfast while we clean up the joint. Most stay for 2-3 days, some stay for all 2 weeks of winter vacation. At the town next to the camp, the largest store in the middle of town is the pagan suppily store. Bringing a hundred or so people into town fills the restruants, shops, theaters (town's got about 800 population), so they're pretty happy about it.

Ah Dang!!!! I wanna live where you live!!

Bankrupt state or not! It would be nice to have something out side!!

 

[saddina]

I have WHAT in my yard? :

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Not my house. There's about 30 families, we rent out a campground (yes the whole thing). The kids get a sleepover in the cabins, and the older teens are paid to keep an eye on them after 9, while the adults have circle. At dawn the teens cook breakfast while we clean up the joint. Most stay for 2-3 days, some stay for all 2 weeks of winter vacation. At the town next to the camp, the largest store in the middle of town is the pagan suppily store. Bringing a hundred or so people into town fills the restruants, shops, theaters (town's got about 800 population), so they're pretty happy about it.

Ah Dang!!!! I wanna live where you live!!

Bankrupt state or not! It would be nice to have something out side!!​

It's alotta fun... but a pain to organize.

I get the task of feeding this mob... Made arrangements to have belgian waffles and muffins delivered for lummas, 4 days before i get into a car accident and fractured my ribs.

 

[Dust Bunny]

hi I'm a bit apprehensive about posting as i haven't had the chance to read the 70+ pages on this thread, and I'm not used to being openly pagan, i mean those closest to me know (hubby, mom, brother, roommate) but that's about it, oh ya and the nice people at the "witchy" store

I've been pagan since as long as i can remember, even before i knew what it was or that there were other people out there like me, I'm more of a kitchen witch than anything else, i just try to do what feels right, work with nature and keep things simple, well that's all i can think to write, so i guess i will see you guys later. blessed be

 

[CoopCrazy]

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Welcome Dustbunny.. Enter and be Merry... I am soo glad you decided to pop in.. We have some amazing folks on this thread and always love "fresh meat" LOL

 

[saddina]

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Welcome, love your sig line.

 

[deb1]

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I keep my interest in paganism quiet. I think that I would loose friends and emotionally I am not ready to make that jump.

Plus, I think that my kids would suffer. Until I meet some pagan friends with kids, I am keeping my spiritual practices private.

I love many aspects of the south but sometimes people here can be very superstitious. As an example, my 13 year old daughter is bubbly and outgoing. Recently she has decided to experiment with the color black and has begun wearing black polish and darker clothing. Not a big deal to me. She still acts the same, but she is very artistic and I think , likes to experiment with clothing. Anyway, one of her close friends came to me in a panic. He had mentioned to a woman in his church that his friend wore black nail polish. She had told him that he needed to warn me that Abbie's soul could get sucked out and she could get influenced by Satan.

What! From wearing black nail polish?

I told the boy not to worry, that my daughter was fine. I pointed out to him that her personality hadn't changed, she was still friendly and sweet. That reassured him a bit.


Not only is that crazy but how odd a person to terrify my daughter's friend and then send him to attempt to frighten me. Can you imagine if I suddenly announced that I was a pagan?

 

[CoyoteMagic]

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They wouldn't just have a cross burning on your front lawn, but they would have you tied to it.

Some places are more open. I've actually found smaller out of the way places are more accepting that in the larger cities. I think it has a lot to do with how folks further out were raised. Many worked side by side with black share croppers and even slaves back in the days. Traditions from Africa and "the Islands" made it's way into thier cultures as well. Many areas you can find someone in the communtiy that people run to for potions and spells. There is a conjure woman that lives down the road from me. Native American traditions have blended in as well.

I think in the bigger cities lots of folks put on airs and have to look down upon things that aren't mainstream because others around them look down upon it.

Thankfully I have friends that are mainstream that accept me as I am. One is even allowing me to help her daughter who is empathic and sees spirits.